Youth Endowment Fund for England and Wales

In October, the Home Secretary announced a £200m Youth Endowment Fund. Delivered over 10 years, the Fund will deliver transformative change by focussing on those most at risk of involvement in youth violence, diverting young people away from becoming serious offenders.

The YEF will be key in supporting delivery against the ambition of the serious violence strategy, providing funding for early intervention, working with the grain of effective local partnerships, whilst improving the evidence base for what works. Our desired core outcome would be a reduction in proven offending with a particular focus on serious violent offending, in comparison to an appropriate control group.

To deliver this ambition, the Home Office will be launching a Call for Proposals (CfP) during the week commencing 10 December 2018, seeking to identify a suitably experienced organisation, consortium or partnership ('Bidder') who will have responsibility for managing the Fund itself and; a. deliver a programme of grants enabling interventions targeted at the desired cohort of children and young people in England and Wales; b. act as a centre of expertise, generating, disseminating and promoting new knowlege and practice that will transform local and national responses to tackling serious violence; c. ensure that evidence and knowledge is accessible to policy makers, service commissioners and front-line professionals on a free of charge basis; d. leverage impact by generating and securing additional funding and resources from appropriate sources and individuals to allow additional, longer term activity post the ten-year period; and e. provide annual reports to the Home Office covering take-up, quality of evidence produced and financial management including a cost benefit analysis of successful interventions. Please note that the YEF is not aimed at organisations who may subsequently be interested in bidding for funding to support interventions once the Fund becomes operational.

Further information for those with an interest in bidding for funding to deliver interventions will be made available once the Fund is operational, at an appropriate time. Potential Bidders are invited to attend a briefing session to be held on 13 December 2018, at which further information will be provided about the Fund and the CfP as well as an opportunity to ask any questions.

The briefing meeting will be held at a central London location. This CfP is being managed using an online process via the Crown Commercial Service's (CCS) eSourcing Suite, known as Emptoris.

Further details on how to register are included in the Other Information section of this notice. The deadline for submission of proposals will be midday on Wednesday 23 January 2019.

Additional information: To register for the Youth Endowment Fund CfP: 1. Interested organisations must first be registered as a 'Supplier' on the eSourcing Suite to participate: If you have not already done so, please use the following link https://gpsesourcing.cabinetoffice.gov.uk. 2.

Instructions on how to use the portal can be found online in the 'e-Sourcing - Supplier Guidance': https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/esourcing-tool... 3. Bidders without a DUNS number must contact D&B UK directly on 0870 243 2344 (option 3), or online at http://www.dnb.co.uk/duns-form.asp in order to obtain a number. 4.

Once registered as a Supplier on the portal, please email the Authority via YEFCompetition@homeoffice.gov.uk and ask to be added to the event. Please use the following subject title, "[INSERT YOUR ORGANISATION NAME] : Youth Endowment Fund - Call for Proposals Portal Access".

You must also submit a signed Non-disclosure Agreement (NDA) at this stage: We will not be able to add you to the event without a duly signed NDA. 5. In the body of the email you must include the name of the individual or individuals representing your bid, AND these contacts associated email addresses.

Please note the email address used to register on the portal must be the same as those you provide for the purpsoes of representing your bid, as it is this individual(s) to whom access to the event will be provided. 6. Once you are added to the portal, the Home Office will confirm that your registration(s) has been linked to the YEF event and you will then be able to view the suite of documents and online application form associated with this CfP.

Bidders should also automatically receive a system-generated confirmatory email from CCS. 7. Once linked to the YEF event, all further communications, including the submission of your proposal will be managed via the portal only. 8.

If you have any technical difficulties concerning the CCS eSourcing portal, neither the Home Office Commercial Grants Team nor those managing the YEFCompetition@homeoffice.gov.uk inbox will be able to offer any assistance. Please contact the CCS eSourcing Team for help. 9. It is imperative you test your portal connection and become familiar with how to submit your proposal well in advance of the deadline date.